The Story of My “Second Life”

The good folks over at the Schome Project have started looking at the Framework for 21st Century Learning as a context for guiding activities within their project. (For more about this great initiative, visit the ‘Projects‘ page on their site, and especially check out the Schome-NAGTY Teen Second Life Pilot Final Report, it is terrific.) [...]

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One of my students showed me this machinima he and a member of Schome Park made the other day just playing around. It’s great fun for me to watch these friendships evolve and the skills that naturally develop. Faz Schomer is one of the most talented members of Schome Park and JPSkater777 is quickly ramping [...]

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After helping my boss Carol create a main grid avatar and getting her up and running on my Macbook Pro in record time, I logged in on my desktop PC and we joined Shri, Euphloozie, Roughbounds, and Schomer at Schomehenge on the Main Grid for a bit of strategizing and sharing about our first full, [...]

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In my previous post I didn’t really delve into the real power of last night’s CSI: NY episode, and that is the interactive in-world ‘game’ that allows visitors to gather and analyze evidence, develop conclusions, and ultimately solve a case, all while interacting with the environment and other avatars. For a look at a similar [...]

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Just came across this post by Nafiza GKid on the Global Kids Digital Media Initiative blog. [Nafiza was one of a small group of teens from Global Kids (GK) at the Second Life Community Convention in Chicago this past August.] I’m sharing it because I think it’s a great example of the hope and promise [...]

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First read about this on Will’s blog a while back, have had it in my del.icio.us links for a while, and have been meaning to blog it. As we start getting our feet wet with our Teen Second Life project (gotta stop calling it a club) I’m hearing from more and more people who want [...]

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Had our second Teen Second Life club meeting yesterday, six of our nine members made it, though the kids themselves weren’t in-world (the photo at right is NOT the way to use SL with your kids) we still had a great time. Everyone’s excitement level continues to ratchet up. Goals for the meeting were to [...]

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Our Teen Second Life after-school club gets together after school on Wednesday for our second meeting. We don’t have our avatars yet, we still need to get permission forms over to the Schome Park folks, but these kids are chomping at the bit, so I figured I’d give them something to chew on while the [...]

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How cool is this … Flashmeeting rocks … conferencing right now with ten or so people over in the U.K. about our joining their Schome Park project (assuming we actually get kids to sign up). This technology is wonderful, makes you really feel as if you are there. We are talking about research methods, curriculum, [...]

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